Relating to a beg or to a Turkish administrative office; variant of beglerbeglic.
Possibly from Turkish beylik or an English misreading/variant of beglerbeglic, or a back-formation from beglerbeg with -lic. The exact origin is uncertain due to transliteration confusion.
When English speakers encountered Ottoman Turkish, they didn't always understand the morphology. Some words got shortened or reanalyzed—'beglic' might be either a shortened form or a mishearing that stuck in some texts.
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